What a special evening!

Last evening, was special one!

I booked a ticket to Jagjeet singh live concert. and boy, it turned out to be such a great show! The show started late and so I cud join before starting as I arrived 30 min late. but once the show started, it was like everyone tapping his/her foot continuously some of them rhyming with Jaggu da and one after another, hits kept coming out of Jaggu da's group.

there were only 6 ppl in his team...1 on guitar, one on baansuri, one on table, one on dholak, sitar and electric guitar each. All of them one by one, played so well that one was wondering if only one instrument was being played, or can a human really play it so well!

HE started with Sarfarosh fame "Hoshwalon ko khabar kya"..and then came ...one by one, jhuki jhuki si najar, aapko - dekh kar dekhata rah gaya, chitthi na koi sandesh...and so on!! ppl were simply mesmerised to say the least..a lot of them tapping their feet naturally!

After 2 hours of continuous singing, when he was tired, he simply made the whole audience sing for him....two songs (tum itna jo muskura rahe ho and hothon se chhu lo tum ) and promptly used signs from his hand to remind ppl of line and everyone was following him like in a trance. Even me, who generally like to keep silnet, was singing..all ppl, more than 3000, were singing and singing seriously, in sync...without any practice...just because of his mastery on how to deal with audience...in fat ppl were so impressed by his hand signals that they clapped a lot on his signals !!!!

and what was most surprising was his sense of humour ....mind blowing to say the least...he hardly said more than 15-20 words..but that made us simle at least 15-20 times ...! just a word..or a movement...at the right time...unexpected! but having the same result....audience ending up in big roar of laughter!

Before closing..one more observation. In this age when ppl think gajal is dying, one needed to b thr to see...most of the audience was young, enjoying as well as appreciating!!

Jai ho jaggu da...keep gajal gayaki alive!

PS: I recorded the songs till my cell got discharged!